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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you' 08 February 2024Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, ...
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Internationalisation in balance: Universities of the Netherlands announce their own measures 08 February 2024On 8 February, the Universities of the Netherlands (UNL) published the measures that universities themselves are intending to take to manage the influ...
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Helping people live healthier lives? A game may be the answer 07 February 2024The LUMC, Leiden University and The Hague University of Applied Sciences want to help health professionals support behaviour change in the population....
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‘The goal is that we no longer have to talk about open science because all science is open’ 06 February 2024Paul Wouters has been involved in open science for 30 years, from his first introduction to a preprint server in 1992 to his recent roles as Dean of t...
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Fifteen lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification 05 February 2024Fifteen passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 22 January. Rector Magnificus Hester Bijl congratulated them i...
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‘Don’t assess academic CVs on autopilot’ 05 February 2024Hiring academics is more than just tallying up publications, says academic director and history professor Jeroen Duindam. He and his colleagues have c...
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Learning from miscarriages of justice with the new European Registry of Exonerations 30 January 2024Why do innocent people sometimes spend years in prison? EUREX is a registry of miscarriages of justice in Europe that ultimately led to exonerations. ...
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Interview with Rector Hester Bijl: ‘There is no place for antisemitism here’ 30 January 2024Leiden University is under fire: it is allegedly doing too little to tackle antisemitism. Rector Hester Bijl responds to this accusation and to a vide...
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Algorithms and data behind Leiden Ranking in public domain 30 January 2024Unlike other major university rankings, the Leiden Ranking – Open Edition is completely transparent. The ranking compiled by the Centre for Science an...
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Growing diversity of Dutch population not immediately visible at universities 29 January 2024The intake of bachelor’s students from classic immigration countries whose prior education was in the Netherlands does not reflect the growing diversi...
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge 29 January 2024Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent s...
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections 26 January 2024How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with rese...
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New entrance, new allure: Gorlaus Building officially completed 25 January 2024The Faculty of Science has gained an extra 30,000 square metres: Thursday 25 January marked the completion of the new Gorlaeus Building. In this secon...
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A quick call with Eric van Hoof on online privacy, knights’ shields and looking left, right and left again 23 January 2024With Sunday 28 January the annual European Data Protection Day, we are drawing attention to data protection and the right to privacy. Because it’s oka...
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Five questions on why we are talking about academic freedom 23 January 2024On 14 February, we will discuss the role of academics in the public debate and how this relates to academic freedom. All students and staff of the uni...